While in Nigeria big waist, gap toothed women are considered beautiful, we are stuck with the Barbie doll as a portrayal of American beauty. It is known that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but does this stand true when our ideal of beauty is a mere replica of society’s definition of beauty? Well I say so much for being unique individuals. This ideal of beauty and perfection is engraved within young girls across America, young girls who question their own natural beauty and feel unattractive. Young women need not suffer because they do not meet the expectations of the American beauty. Women need not conform to the ideal beauty forced upon by America the beautiful. Yet if society says, plastic is beautiful, then plastic thou shall be.
Dear Brain,
Just a quick insight, i need to write this down before i forget.
I have realized that the contemporary world is more like a shopping mall. People all over the world are conditioned to be “obedient” consumers. It starts when one is a child, children are the easy targets. Children are easy to convince, so there go cartoons and “educational” television shows to condition children to believe that “life is fun” that everything is cool, and everyone is happy if you BUY BUY BUY. Why else would children want so many useless crap in the first place. But it’s not just kids that want useless crap. Children grow into teenagers, and teenagers to adults, and everything else in between. Since we were conditioned as children to be “mindless consumers” thus our entire life is virtue, or more like a cycle of mindless consumerism. Therefore allowing us to perceive all aspects of life as “products”. For fuck sakes, even the current University system is one whole huge fucking shopping mall. Where students care more about seeming “smart” and “cool” to other people, and not actually growing intellectually. Where students conform into the arbitrary lifestyle of the American, the mind dulling American who loves to shop, shop, SHOP! I could go on and on about with this metaphor, but i won’t… I’ll save that for my paper!
Sincerely,
Izzy’s Brain.
